Swedish Defense Industry Licenses Game Engine

Z00L00K writes "The Swedish defense industry has licensed the engine from Battlefield 2 by Digital Illusions for 4MSEK (about US $540,000). The engine will be used to develop training simulators for defense, and support of new command methods in the defense."

and when you finish...

[Bin_jammin]

each mission, you get to save the princess

And what a princess

[lastninja]

Worth saving [princess-madeleine.com].

Swedish Defense?

[Zoshnell]

Not to rag on Sweden, they have some fine looking women, good chocolate, and make a helluva meatball, but what are they preparing to defend against?

Re:Swedish Defense?

[Anonymous Coward]

Uhm, what about that gigantic monstrosity of a neighbor, Russia?

Re:Swedish Defense?

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually Sweden and Russia aren't really neighbours at all. There's this little country called Finland between them (and in the north both Finland and Norway)

Re:Swedish Defense?

[Chess_the_cat]

A neighbour is someone who lives in your neighbourhood. Not someone immediately adjacent to you.

Re:Swedish Defense?

[Anonymous Coward]

The US Army?

Re:Swedish Defense?

[Leffe]

The military's only function is keeping dangerous people off the streets, if they have more toys to play with they are more likely to stay.

Re:Swedish Defense?

[lastninja]

Well it appears that Sweden is going to cut down/restructure the defense to counter terrorism and provide their part to the new EU army. At least that is my interpretation of the new defence proposition. And I think you have the chocolate confused with Switzerland (though i think Belgium is the new chocolate county of Europe). It was only a couple of years ago that Swedish chocolate was not allowed to be called chocolate in the EU because of the low cocoa percentage.

Re:Swedish Defense?

[accelleron]

it's not the chocolate that matters, man... IT'S THE CHICKS!

Re:Swedish Defense?

[I judge you]

Not to rag on Sweden, they have some fine looking women, good chocolate, and make a helluva meatball, but what are they preparing to defend against?

To defend against invaders coming for the women, chocolate, and meatballs.

Duh.

Re:Swedish Defense?

[Anonymous Coward]

The short story is that Sweden is not, and has never been, a member of NATO or any other pact. This has meant a few things:

1. They need a big whopping army, since they don't have any pact countries to rely on.

2. Since they're not in a pact, their army needs no offensive capability. It is purely geared for defence.

3. Since they're not in a pact, they've managed to avoid getting dragged into a war for nearly 200 years.

Traditionally their biggest worry was the USSR. Nowadays it mostly seems to be fig

And when you step on a landmine...

[Anonymous Coward]

Field engineer goes BORK BORK BORK

how else

[pizza_milkshake]

can you keep your 3d military models in shape?

Re:how else

[accelleron]

yes. You do it by pouring Belgian chocolate on the Swedish women.

lan party, military style!

[lublu]

I for one am going to wait for the first lan party, er lan war between Us Army and Swedish military. I wonder which is going to be better American Army or Battelfield 1942.

Real war is so old school and out of date anyways.

I've just had an idea - fraggin defence contractor!

And if you are going that far, mind as well build the real matrix.

Great, this'll be realistic

[Enlarge Your Penis]

Have the Swedish army medics worked out how to respawn dead soldiers then?

Re:Great, this'll be realistic

[djdavetrouble]

Have the Swedish army medics worked out how to respawn dead soldiers then?

who modded that down?? That was pretty fraggin funny !